Cigarette Card

Wills’s Cigarettes “Wonders of the Past” Cigarette Card #45 “Temple of Concord, Girgenti”

Produced in 1926 by W. D. & H. O. Wills.

Issued by The Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain & Ireland) Ltd.

Text on reverse of card reads:

“Akragas, called Agrigentum by the Romans and Girgenti to-day, was once one of the richest Greek colonies in Sicily. Its wealth and magnificence in the fifth century B.C. are still attested by the ruins of superb temples along a ridge facing
the sea. Of these the so-called Temple of Concord is the best preserved through having been converted into a church in the Middle Ages. It is nearly 140 feet long, and has 34 columns, six at each end. Akragas was sacked in 406 B.C. by the Carthaginians, and traces of fire are still visible on one of the temples.”